More details on some interesting updates we made to App-V 5.0 SP2

Microsoft’s Ben Hunter has a great new post on some of updates we made to App-V 5.0 SP2:

With the release of MDOP 2013 R2 on Dec 2nd 2013, I would now like to provide you with more details on some interesting updates we have made to App-V 5.0 SP2 as part of this MDOP release.

In App-V 5.0 SP2 you may have noticed that the sequencer itself looks relatively unchanged. Although this is true from a workflow and UI standpoint, the SP2 Sequencer has had a large amount of changes made “under the hood” so to speak. The majority of these changes are to support two critical features in SP2, VC Runtimes (SXS Assemblies) and Shell Extensions.

In this post we will focus on VC Runtimes, we will discuss Shell Extensions in a separate post….